Taught by Tenley Raithel, this three-day Summer Camp for ages 10-13 is a seven session drawing and painting series. Each session builds on skills learned in previous lessons. Wednesday sessions begin with developing perspective through use of color gradient, and then adds to perspective by considering overlapping and size to establish distance. Thursday sessions move on to the use of warm and cool colors to portray objects as near or far away, with the second session adding one-point perspective, to represent objects receding into space. Friday sessions complete the series, first with a session that experiments with negative and positive space to create 3-D illusions, the second session combines the previous skills to gesture drawings of forms, and the final session introduces rhythm to add a bit of drama to the previously learned skills. This series is for children who are serious about learning art skills, want to have fun, who are ready for a challenge, and have questions about art they want answered. This class has room for 10 students. Come and express yourself!”
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Wednesday, July 21st 12:30pm – 4pm
Session 1: Far, Far Away 1 12:30pm – 2:00pm 1.5 hours
Exploratory Exercise: create a color gradient using watercolors
Advanced Art Techniques: Developing atmospheric perspective
Subject Matter: create in a landscape with foreground and distance through use of cut layers from a color gradient considering tonal value
Session 2: Far, Far Away 2 2:30pm – 4:00pm 1.5 hours
Exploratory Exercise: use size to create perspective
Advanced Art Technique: considering color, plus size and overlapping to create distance
Subject Matter: experiment with using a variety of sized objects in a landscape painting to find how depth can be created in a composition
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Thursday, July 22nd 12:30pm – 4pm
Session 1: Far, Far Away 3 12:30pm – 2:00pm 1.5 hours
Exploratory Exercise: Mixing colors to create distance with use of warm colors to create foreground and cool colors in the background
Advanced Art Techniques: Developing atmospheric perspective
Subject Matter: Using color and value to create atmospheric perspective
Session 2: Far, Far Away 4 2:30pm – 4:00pm 1.5 hours
Exploratory Exercise: Creating distance using one-point perspective
Advanced Art Techniques: practice one-point perspective and create depth to represent objects receding in the distance
Subject Matter: practice drawing tall towers that recede to one point to create the feeling that the towers have great depth
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Friday, July 23rd 12:30pm – 4:30pm
Session 1: Tricky Drawing 12:30pm – 1:30pm 1 hour
Exploratory Exercise: experiment with the use of positive and negative space
Advanced Art Techniques: Exploring 3-D drawing with perspective
Subject Matter: Creating illusions using positive and negative space
Session 2: Gesture Drawing 1:30pm – 3:00pm 1.5 hours
Image taken from: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/113786328065444672/
Advanced Art Techniques: Gesture drawing
Exploratory Exercise: creating representational drawing of forms and objects while focusing on the whole object rather than details
Subject Matter: A study of how things change when in movement and showing that in a drawing a regular repetition of lines creates a feeling of movement
Session 3: Falling Into Art 3:00pm – 4:30pm 1.5 hours
Image found at : http://beckermiddleart.blogspot.com/2015/01/falling-into-op-art.html?m=1
Advanced Art Techniques: Modeling 5 types of rhythm
Exploratory Exercise: use of shading and repetition to create movement and rhythm
Subject Matter: Creating a work of art using perspective with lines and color to create rhythm and depth
**Registration deadline: July 7th
**Masks are required in the gallery and summer camp classroom. COVID-19 protocols will be in place.
Session 2: Color will be explored while students mix and create and name their colors
